Changesdorsey

For the last ten days I've been on a David Bowie bender.

It all started when Math Rock played a couple of Bowie tunes from the early Seventies during a "Super Monkey Ball" late-night video game fest (of the kind I haven't had since I last visited Klaus; it was decidedly awesome). Anyway, I think he played "Rock and Roll Suicide" and "The Man Who Sold the World". I was all "This is Awesome." Math Rock was all "It's David Bowie." I was all "I know that, but I didn't know that David Bowie was this Awesome." (I'm paraphrasing.)

In reality, I've had some run-ins with David Bowie before. During college Klaus and I had a serious fling with "Let's Dance." If I'm remembering correctly, we had a plan in place to perform "Under Pressure" for some dorm lip-synch show, Klaus as Freddy Mercury. All he needed was the moustache, but I would have had to have worn something like this:



So it was a no-go. In addition, I was passingly familiar with some of Bowie's classic period via my ex-wife's copy of "Changesbowie." I seem to recall listening to that while driving to the Somerville VFW to pick her up after a night of drinking. All I really knew about his early period, however, was that I dug the song "Young Americans" and "Rebel Rebel." Everything else I could have taken or left.

But for some reason - maybe it was the Super Monkey Ball - I was tempted to figure out just what Bowie is up to. The day after I spent like four hours doing research on the web. The iTunes store, Amazon, Wikipedia, everything. I boned up. Did a bunch of research. Was intrigued by the Brian Eno connection, so I bought ""Heroes"" on the iTunes store, and ordered "Ziggy Stardust, et. al." and "Aladdin Sane" with my most recent Amazon.com credit card reward certificate. Sweet. I learned the changes to "The Man Who Sold the World" and the riff from "Rebel Rebel."

I tell ya', I've been on a bender.

I've also been frigging bored. To tears.

I managed to get some work done today somehow. My heart wasn't in it. I think I'm basically committed to going on the job market this year, and though this will require a bunch of work of me between now and September 15th, I think it's basically in the bag. (Hopefully.) But I've just been dang bored. Bored when I'm by myself. Bored when I'm around others (no offense; it's me). I'm not sure why this is. Maybe I'm in a rut. I perhaps need to get into some sort of groove. Or something like that. Anyway, something has got to change. I don't know what the prescription is. Perhaps I need to start experimenting with mind-expanding drugs. More likely I just need to get some exercise. Possibly some jazzercise. But the thrill is gone. Bored bored bored.

In conclusion, Klaus Kinski as Luke Skywalker?